![]() Makes important metatheoretical results accessible to introductory students through a discursive presentation of those results and by using simple case studiesġ.1 Demonstration and interpretation 1.2 Deductive and inductive demonstrations 1.3 The principle of noncontradiction 1.4 Abstraction, variables, and formalization logical and nonlogical elements formal contradiction 1.5 A fundamental problem 1.6 Outline of forthcoming chapters Appendix: Elements of a theory of demonstrative logicĢ.1: Introduction Syntax 2.2: Conventions 2.3: Syntactic demonstrations and trees 2.4: Scope named forms 2.5: Formal propertiesģ.1: Semantics for ⊥ and the sentence letters 3.2: Semantics for the connectives 3.3: Semantics for compound sentences 3.4: Intensional concepts Appendix: Expressive adequacy disjunctive normal form the lean languageĤ.1: Looseness of fit 4.2: Conditional sentences of English 4.3: Necessary conditions 4.4: Sufficient conditions 4.5: Necessary and sufficient conditions the principle of charity 4.6: Formalizing necessary and sufficient conditions 4.7: Exceptions and strong exceptions 4.8: Disjunction 4.9: Negations and conjunctions 4.10: Punctuation 4.11: Limits of formalization 4.12: Formalizing demonstrationsĥ.1: Identifying and verifying interpretations 5.2: Demonstrating that there is no interpretation 5.3: Demonstrating general principles 5.4: Falsifying general claims 5.5: Relations between intensional concepts models entailment Appendix: Alternatives to bivalenceĪ-1.Makes objectual semantics for quantified logic easy, with an incremental, rule-governed approach assisted by numerous simple exercises. ![]()
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